NEWS: Blind People Tell Environmentalists to Watch Out

CULTURE: Blind People Tell Environmentalists to Watch Out

Environmentalists got an unexpected enemy this week: The Blind.

Thirty blind people took part in the study to prove that hybrid car manufacturers are possibly trying to murder blind people. The unscientific study involved blind people lined up on a city street and they were instructed to raise their hand if they heard an approaching hybrid car.

The blind are suggesting that hybrid cars be equipped with noisier engines to alert pedestrians who might not hear them coming. Other suggestions include louder radiator fans that engage while the engine is quiet or even devices in the wheel well that alert pedestrastrians when an environmentally conscious driver is coming.

One would think that these results would dash the dreams of people who hope one day noise pollution contributed by cars would be a thing of the past. Fortunately, Toyota told the blind people to just relax and deal.

why did the blind person cross the road?
because they couldnt hear the hybrid coming.

Why did the frog cross the road?
Because it was stapled to the blind person.

I wish these blind people would just open their eyes and realize the benefits of...urrr...ummm, I mean I wish they could see the beauty of....no thats not right either...ummm...screw this. How many blind people does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Hopefully the driver of the Hybrid car is not also blind. Then we would have a bigger problem.

Make them beep.
Make them beep loud.
Make them beep obnoxious.
Make them beep frequently.

That's what I'm talkin' about.

To use a cliche: Sounds like the blind leading the blind..

Or just ban hybrid cars and carry on burning petrol...

Well-oiled bikes are also a menace.

Indeed.

God, i can't count how many cyclists i've run over because i couldn't hear them coming...

And enslave those poor dogs?

I run over blind people all the time.

I had to get fenders just because of that.

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I thought they aLREADY added sound to the cars, after someone squashed their kid in the drive way or something?

Just make it a standard option to have a card in the spokes of the wheel like this guy.

They should just put something on them so all hybrid cars make a sound like the flying car on the Jetsons.
That way I can make fun of it way down the block before it even gets here.

Ironically, it's the blind and elderly who actually pay the most attention when crossing the street, I've never had to come to a sudden stop because one or the other stepped out in front of my car. The rest of us have no excuse however. If I had a nickel for every time a bicyclist blew a stop sign and cut me off or a young and capable pedestrian obliviously walked out in front of my car, a '93 Crown Victorian with a very noticeable squeaking noise coming from the engine, I would have enough money to buy at least one hybrid.

They should just put a rfid tag in every car. It doesn't have to be car specific so there wouldn't be a way to track you. Then a blind person would just carry around a device that informed them, with noise, if cars were getting close.

I want you.

Now.

I have a T-shirt that says that on the back.

Blind people thank me all the time for the fact that you can hear my motorcycle coming from close to a mile away.

My neighbors just don't understand when i come home at 2 a.m., my pipes aren't for my own self indulgence....i am truly just trying to help blind people.

Am i evil for outright laughing at the thought of a hybrid car running down a flock of blind people crossing the road? That's all i could picture when i read the OP.

It's their fault they are blind.
Not the environments.

Geeeez.

yeah... but I like people... or rather me, so lets screw these hybrids and all by Range Rovers, or Hummers...